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Books by
Jamie Walker
101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves: A Gift for Women
of All Ages /
Signifyin’ Me: New and Selected Poems
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101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves
A Gift for Women
of All Ages
By Jamie Walker
"Finally
everything a woman need's is in one book!"—Lanette Everett, Business
Counselor
Reviews
This book needs to be in every woman's medicine cabinet next to
the Tylenol and the Bayer aspirin.—J. Elizabeth Hale Turner,
Paradise Dream
Finally
everything a woman need's is in one book!—Lanette Everett,
Business Counselor
Jamie Walker has written a healing balm for Black women daily
assaulted by racist and sexist realities. Her prescriptive words
are also instructive to us men socialized to view women as
objects. Her loving engagement with Black women in the
book--reminding them of their subjectivity and agency--teaches
us to see Black women with new eyes, to love Black women with
renewed hearts, and maybe, just maybe, learn to love ourselves
anew in the process."—Ewuare Osayande, Caught at
the Crossroads Without a Map; Chairperson of the
Philadelphia Black Radical Congress
Self-love is the only kind of love that can ever truly heal
and rescue us, causing us to be more open in all of our other
relationships, activities, and endeavors.101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves: A Gift for Women
of All Ages
is a book about
self-actualization, the power of sisterhood, the healing power
of sharing our own stories, and the beauty of lifting as we
climb. A gift for women (and men) of all ages, it reminds Black
women that we are Queens and, above all, human beings who need
to first heal and love ourselves unconditionally, before we can
ever attempt to liberate or give back to the nation. In
addition to being an inspiring and empowering read that helps
Black women to return to their traditional greatness (nia), the
book also includes an extensive recommended reading list, a list
of organizations and websites, and a guide to historically Black
colleges and universities.
—Publisher
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the
Movement
By John Lewis and Michael D’Orso
Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper's son,
went to Nashville to attend a Baptist
college where, at the end of the 1950s,
his life and the new civil rights
movement became inexorably entwined.
First came the lunch counter sit-ins;
then the Freedom Rides; the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
and Lewis's election to its
chairmanship; the voter registration
drives; the 1963 march on Washington;
the Birmingham church bombings; the
murders during the Freedom Summer; the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party;
Bloody Sunday in Selma in 1964; and the
march on Montgomery. Lewis was an
active, leading member during all of it.
Much of his account, written with
freelancer D'Orso, covers the same
territory as David Halberstam's
The Children. Halberstam himself
appears here briefly as a young reporter
but Lewis imbues it with his own
observations as a participant. He is at
times so self-effacing in this memoir
that he underplays his role in the
events he helped create. But he has a
sharp eye, and his account of Selma and
the march that followed is vivid and
personal. He describes the rivalries
within the movement as well as the
enemies outside. |
After being
forced out of SNCC because of internal politics,
Lewis served in President Carter's domestic peace
corps, dabbled in local Georgia politics, then in
1986 defeated his old friend Julian Bond in a race
for Congress, where he still serves. Lewis notes
that people often take his quietness for meekness.
His book, a uniquely well-told testimony by an
eyewitness, makes clear that such an impression is
entirely inaccurate.—Publishers
Weekly
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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The White Masters
of the World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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